OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[jgvol]

Are you dense or something?  You'd really take NASA's word about somebody who never existed? 

Only when pigs fly.  

[847badgerfan]

The inevitable moon landing guy crash out.  Didn't take long. 

I said, "I don't know, probably we did, I suppose."

Now I don't believe birds are real. 

I do, after wiping all the shit off my boat the other day.

[Gigem]

Yeah, just the original moon landing films....let's record "I Dream of Jeannie" over it.  F it.

LOL.  I am damn sure glad we didn't write over the Declaration of Independence, and someone in 1776, thought "Hey, me might want to preserve this historical document!"

We have 100% of the films.  They are in glorious 1960's High Fidelity.  

[jgvol]

We have 100% of the films.  They are in glorious 1960's High Fidelity. 

We did have some amazing technology back then.  

[betarhoalphadelta]

I do, after wiping all the shit off my boat the other day.

That's not bird shit. That's coagulated chemtrail residue that falls from the sky. 

[jgvol]

That's not bird shit. That's coagulated chemtrail residue that falls from the sky.

Have you heard the one about the fake snow not melting in the south?

[betarhoalphadelta]

Have you heard the one about the fake snow not melting in the south?

Must have missed that one as I've only lived in the South for 2 years of my life... And that was Marietta GA, so I'm guessing a lot of Southerners don't count those 2 years 

[utee94]

That's not bird shit. That's coagulated chemtrail residue that falls from the sky.

Impossible, Florida illegalized chemtrails over a year ago!

[FearlessF]

Grumping about fake moon landings is EXACTLY the kind of topic this thread was designed for. 

Bravo, Gentlemen!

they are better men than I.(But, ya'll already knew that)

fake or otherwise moon landings  don't bother me a tall

I've got other pressing things to be grumpy about
Like folks that won't bother to reply to my professional emails!
I'm just doing my damned job and trying to communicate!

[Cincydawg]

My favorite comment is "They did fake the Moon landings but wanted it to look so real they filmed it on location."

I'm often surprised how deeply folks get into such topics and "discussions".  Certainly, if something like this were indeed faked by government, it would call into question all sorts of things "we" take as being real.  I can understand why folks would discuss the JFK assassination, but Flat Earth Theory?  Not for me.  Having lengthy arguments about college football?  Um .....

Evolution?  OK with me to have a discussion (somewhere) but in general it's between two pretty uneducated groups who don't understand some basics.  

All this goes to an earlier question posed by MDT about "What do we really know?.  There is the Descarte answer of course.  It is possible everything else is some simulation, the way AI is taking over social media lends some credence to that.

I lean to worrying more about things over which I have some control or influence.  

[FearlessF]

https://youtu.be/HRphxu3Ru9M

[betarhoalphadelta]

A neighbor woman that I regularly see when I'm walking the dog was wearing a "Tetris" themed t-shirt today. 

Why does that not go into the happy thread for a nerd like me? 

Because the brick featured in the center of it was not actually a real Tetris brick. It was comprised of 5 blocks, not 4. 

Grumpy. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

The original Nintendo had dueling Tetrises. 

[Gigem]

I was thinking about this a lot since yesterday, about why I get so irritated and annoyed at these fake moon landing pushers and I think I have sorta nailed a couple of things down.  

The US Gov't has done a lot of underhanded stuff over the years.  We've meddled in other countries sovereignty, helped overthrow foreign governments, aided the drug trade, aided the arms trade, participated in medical experiments that were unethical, a lot of things we shouldn't be proud of.  

But I think most of what the Gov't has lied about is things that they have actually done, but claimed they didn't do.  I'm struggling to think of something they claimed they did and faked it.  

I will allow that there is the possibility that certain elements within the gov't in the '60's would have probably faked the moon landings if there were signs we were going to be beat, and probably they had already undertaken certain steps to faking it.  They probably did set-up a set somewhere, they probably did look at how to make fake moon rocks.  All sorts of things.  Not to say it was sanctioned by NASA or other "daylight" agencies.  But I think you'd be stupid if you think that it wasn't at least considered.